See you at VMworld

If you are attending VMworld this year make sure you attend the session I will be co-presenting with Carter Shanklin (Product Manager for VI Toolkit) and Andrey Anastasov who is VMware’s PowerShell Architect.

We plan to have this somewhat mixed. There will be some introductory info, but we will also have Andrey demo his tips and tricks, and then go to showing how VI Toolkit and PowerGUI can be used to build custom UI admin consoles mashing up functionality one needs to manage host, guest, OS, and applications on top.

So hopefully everyone will learn something new.

If there are any specific areas you would like us to cover please post these here.

Since you ask, if you are able to touch on generating baseline reports along with using the toolkit for automatically adjusting CPU Shares or adding additional RAM if resources are historically low would be interesting to see.

I am curious about the baselining scenario. Is that an accurate description of what you have in mind:
1. Pick a VM and designate it as a baseline (which parameters? just CPU and RAM consumption?)
2. See which VMs are above the baseline.
3. Export the list as a CSV.

In the automated adjustment scenario, you would want a script to check for the CPU and RAM every 15 minutes or so, perform the adjustment, and send an email to administrator, correct?

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